Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-06-04

know how I loathe him, VIM his handsome,
bad face and his cruel eyes. I always loathed
him, and now 1 hate him, too. But l will
tell you all about it" and she did. with many
feminine comments and interpretations.
jess sat quite still and waited till She had
finished.
"Well, DEAR" she said, at last, you are not
going to marry him, and SO there is an end of
it. You can't detest the man more than I do.
I have watched him for years." she went on,
with rising anger, a I tell you that Frank
Muller is a liar and q traitor. That man
would betray his W father if lie thought it
to his own interest to do so. He hates uncle
am sure he does, although he prctends to
be so fond Of him. l am sure that he has
tried often and often to stir W the Beers
against him. Old Hans Coetzee told me that
he denounced him to the Weld Cornet us an
'uitlander' and a 'verdomde Engclsmann'
about two years before tho annexation, and
tried to get him to persuade the Lauddrost to
report him as a law breaker to the Rad
while all the time he was pretending to be 50
friendly. Then in the Sikukuni war it was
Frank Muller who caused them to commander
uncle's two best wagons and the spans. He
gave none himself, nothing but a couple
Of bags Of meal. He is . wicked fellow.
Bessie, and a dangerous fellow; but he has
moro brains and more power about him than
any man in the Transvaal, and you will have
to BIO very careful, or he will do us all a bad
turn"
"Ah!" said Bessie; "well, he can't do much
now that the country Is English"
II am not so sure Of that, am not so
sure that the country is going to stop
English. You laugh ut me for reading the
home papers, but l sec things there that
make me doubtful. The other people are in
power now i'll England, and one does not
know what they may do; you heard what
uncle said tonight. They might give us up
to the Beers. You must remember that w
far away people are only the counters with
which they play their game"
Nonsense, jess" said Bessie Indignantly.
"Englishmen are not like that. When they
say a thing they stick to it."
"They used to, you mean" answered jess
with a shrug, and got up from her chair to &c
to bed.
Bessie began to tidget her white feet owe,
orc another.
"Stop a bit, jess dear" she said. ~ want tc
speak to you about something else."
jess sat, or rather dropped, back into hel
chair, and her pale face turned palcr thar
ever, but Bessie blushed rosy red and hest
tated.
at is about Capt. Mel" she said at length
"Oh," answered jess with little laugh, and
her voice sounded strange and cold in bel
W ears. "Has lie been following Franz
Muller's example and proposing to you, too!'
tkNnD y en;,t D,.,;, Il-ASs -1 l.a.. l..
rose, and, sitting OH u stool by her elder sis
ter,s chair, rested her forehead against hel
knce-"but l love him and l believe that liz
loves me. This morning he told me that
was tho prettiest woman he had seen at home
Or abroad, and the sweetest, too; and do you
know" she said, looking up and giving a
happy little laugh, 81 think ho meant it, too
care you joking, Bessie, or are you really
in carncsat.'
In earnest! ah, but that I um, md l an
not ashamed to say it. l fell in love will
John Mel when he killed that cock ostrich
lie looked so strong and savage as lie fought
with it. 1t is a fine thing to see a man put
out all his strength. And then he is such Il
gentleman!-so different from the men WI
SEQ round hero. Oh, yes, l fell i'll love with
him at once, and | have got deeper and
''Sol"' Ao'o Will nun ever Siutc. anu IL III
does not marry mo think that it will break
my heart. There, that's the truth, jess
dear" and she dropped her golden read OF tc
her sisters knees, and she began to cry
softly, ut the thought.
And tho sister sat there on the chair, he,
hand hanging idly by her side, her white
face set and impassivo as that of an Egyptian
sphinx, and the largo eyes gazing far ava,
through tho window, against which the rail
WINS benting-far away out into the nigh
and the storm. She heard tho slrging of til.
storm, she heard her sisters weeping, hcl
eyes perceived the dark square OF tho window
through which they appeared to look she coult
feel Bcssie's head upon her knccs-yes, sh,
could SEQ and hear and feel, and yet it SCENE,
to her that she was dead. Tho lightning hat
fallen OH her soul as it fell on the pillar ol